Coupland, Carol http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2327-3306
Hill, Trevor
Morriss, Richard
Moore, Michael
Arthur, Antony
Hippisley-Cox, Julia
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute for Health Research (School for Primary Care Research (project number 81))
Article History
Received: 13 July 2017
Accepted: 9 February 2018
First Online: 8 March 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The project was independently peer reviewed and accepted by the QResearch Scientific board and approved in accordance with the agreed procedure with the Trent Research Ethics Committee (reference number: MREC/03/4/021).
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: The authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: financial support from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) for the submitted work; JHC is director of QResearch, which is a not-for-profit venture between the University of Nottingham and EMIS (commercial supplier of GP clinical systems). RM’s contribution to the study has been funded through the NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care East Midlands (CLAHRC EM).
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